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Folks, I read a recent article that said what you probably already knew, that parents love their fat kids less.  Now, the article admitted that parents probably don’t know this, but their actions said it all.  When it came to the fat child, they were less likely to help pay for college or university, and less likely to buy the fat teen a car, even if they might do so for their thinner children.  Couple that with the fact that a child who is much more overweight than their siblings …

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In the last while, my partner Midgie has been working on getting her PhD.  Thankfully, I haven’t been through this process, but I hear it can be a bit of a challenge, and lately she’s been a little stressed out.  Sometimes when Midgie gets stressed, I take a stroll outside or spend some time in the library reading one of the books I’ve written.  It’s not that I don’t want to help her out, but stress is contagious, and catching someone else’s virus doesn’t help cure them.
Midgie said once that …

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If there’s one thing Vancouver does right, it’s make a good eggs benny.  I was having eggs benny with my good friend and famous architect Jonathon Stembridge-Rickenbacker at one of our favorite cafes, a friendly place in Little India.  Actually, I think the staff were all Filipino, so we might have been a bit north in Little Philippines.  Although, that’s probably too far north so it was probably more like Little Poland.  Suffice to say, Vancouver’s ethnic geographies do not model world geographies.  Back in Texas we had a saying: …

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Well, folks, spring is here, and boy howdy, is it a welcome change.  These great outdoors of the Greater Vancouver Regional District have been calling me for a long time, and for a long time, I’ve ignored their calls.  You see, believe it or not, Dr. Matt likes being comfortable, and hesitates when something is outside of his comfort zone.
So regardless of whether or not I have wanted to do certain things, like scale a mountain, or (in the wintertime) shred the backcountry on a snowboard, I’ve consistently had the …

Hey Dr. Matt, how ARE you? Tell me, in your medical opinion, am I ever going to deliver this child out of me?

-Really Pregnant
Well, R.P. first I should note that I don’t have a “doctorate” in the strictest sense; that is, in the sense that I “graduated” from a “university.” My doctorate is what I call the doctorate of life, which is much different than a medical doctor, especially those who poke around in birth canals.
The birth canals I poke around in are the birth canals of …

Folks, a friend of mine was recently shaving his eyebrows, and normally he shaves those on a Level 3, but on that particular day, he forgot, and end up shaving those eyebrows on a Level 1.
Now, this got me thinking about you and your problems.

While I say in my famous book that you can stop having your problems by simply stopping having them, I think it’s also fair to say that we all make mistakes. None of us gets it right the first time. Some of it get …